Missionary education and empire in late colonial India, 1860-1920 /
[Book]
by Hayden J.A. Bellenoit.
London :
Pickering & Chatto,
2007.
1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages)
Empires in perspective ;
no. 3
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index.
List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Glossary; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Knowledge, Religion and Education in Early Modern India; 2 British Fears and Indian Society in the Emergence of North Indian Education, c. 1860-1920; 3 Between East and West: Orientalism, Representation of and Engagements with India; 4 The Failures of Education and its Sociological Bearings; 5 Religious Interaction, the Curriculum and Indian Contestations of Late Colonial Knowledge; 6 Maintaining Missionary Influence: Nationalism, Politics and the Raj c. 1870-1920; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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Focusing on late colonial India, Bellenoit analyses education in colonial society. Most scholars view missionary teachers as handmaidens of the empire, and their theology as intrinsically imperialistic. However, Bellenoit argues that their interaction with India led them away from imperial norms; a simplistic division of colonisers and colonised is insufficient to explain power relations in late colonial India.
Missionary education and empire in late colonial India, 1860-1920.